This is a middling horror, without much in the way of scares. Inhaling the 'cremains' of the former patients of a mental asylum, three out of four students find they are possessed by the spirits of the inmates. The fourth, new girl Emma (Inbar Lavi) has to try and save them.
I'm going to be absolutely honest and admit that Gabby (Holland Roden) kept me watching. The others were nowhere near as obnoxious as teens often are in this kind of film, but not hugely interesting either. Emma's telepathic sympathy with the former inmates is a way of getting into the story, but like the creepy lone security guard, that plot line comes to nothing.
A reasonable flick then, without ever approaching greatness. The location is very effective and nicely shot; A. D. Calvo's direction is often very effective, with many moody establishing shots of the various locations - but it never quite lives up to its powerful opening sequence. My score is 5 out of 10.
House of Dust
2013
Action / Horror / Thriller
House of Dust
2013
Action / Horror / Thriller
Plot summary
College students exploring an abandoned insane asylum accidentally shatter canisters holding the cremains of former mental patients. Inhaling the dusty ash filling the air, they're soon possessed by the souls once held within them. One is a convicted serial killer from 1950.
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Fair to middling horror ...
Straight up nonsense
A supposed horror story that involves haunted dust. I'm not kidding.......haunted dust from a crematorium. I wonder how they got this bag of spanners Green lit.?
Does it have any good bits? Well, if you had to push me into a corner, I might say that Inbar Lavi is quite charming in the lead role and some of the scenes had me half-anxious but that would be about it.
The premise is the worse bit. Well, that and that he seems to be able to possess anyone at will and make people dream. That and apparently service and maintain a perfectly working crematorium furnace through the years just in case someone knocks over his tea caddy container.
Avoid.
Stuck
Surprisingly how bad films can be, this little lot comes up trumps! It's not one of those so bad it's good films it's one of those, why did they bother in the first place films.